Haunting book-sculptures featuring Tlingit forms

Artist Nicholas Galanin has created a wonderful collection of sculptures made from books, featuring reliefs of faces and traditional Tlingit forms.

What Have We Become? (Thanks, Nicholas!)

I write books. My latest is a YA science fiction novel called Homeland (it's the sequel to Little Brother). More books: Rapture of the Nerds (a novel, with Charlie Stross); With a Little Help (short stories); and The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow (novella and nonfic). I speak all over the place and I tweet and tumble, too.

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Maybe this is just the fact that my momma was a librarian, but why do so many artists destroy books? Can’t they use old catalogs or something? The ones from Fisher Scientific are massive. Or maybe phonebooks? Noone uses phonebooks anymore, right? Especially last years.
- Antinous / Moderator
  
  I use the phone book all the time. Trying to look businesses up online gets me every business that’s gone under in the last decade.
  
  And vast numbers of books go to landfill or recycling because nobody wants them. We’d be happy to send you several tons of Readers Digest Condensed Books if you’d like.
Brother Provisional

This is just fantastic. Beautiful.
Pantograph

Oh sure it’s all very wonderful, until that thing sneaks into your bedroom at night and EATS YOUR SOUL.
Anonymous

I love Nicholas’ work for those in Vancouver Nicholas Galanin, Alaskan Tlingit artist, has his first solo show in Canada at grunt gallery, opening Oct.23rd to Dec. 12th. Check out grunt gallery
Anonymous

I was a manager of a “National Book Store chain” and every single Tuesday we were required to rip the covers off TONS of paperbacks and throw them in the dumpster. I was infuriated..why not donate them to libraries, inner city schools, senior citizen centers. And don’t you know we’d get fired if we even tried to take them for above mentioned uses. That’s the REAL sin.
trikitixa

@1: If you bothered to read the artist’s statements you’d find that he uses old ethnographic texts about the Tlingit written by non-native ethnographers/anthropologists, etc. Pretty fucking rad.
Anonymous

Librarians have to get rid of books all the time. I guess its like how surgeons get used to the sight of blood.
I have some carved up books on my wall, I used the autobiography of joan rivers and some hippy dianetics-type book on consciousness.

-A
(librarian)